Choosing and Recommending a Solution

Task One

Learn how to weigh up two or more possible options to solve a problem.

Watch the video on Decision Making

You can use a grid analysis tool to help you choose between several options. This process involves:

Identifying criteria that will guide your decision - these criteria may be key factors or desired outcomes of the process.
Rating each of your alternatives based on how well they fit the criteria.
Assigning a weighting to the criteria based on which is the most important criteria to meet.

(Mrscoolguy80, 2011)

For more information on completing a decision analysis grid, take a look at the article at this link http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_03.htm.

Checkpoint!

Congratulations, you have completed the Problem Solving section. Before you move on to Recession topic, make sure that you understand:

How to use a decision analysis grid.

Take me to Recession!